Local folk-rock band The Hart Strings will celebrate the release of their new CD, Good Conversation,by performing the CD live at Jimmy’s Music Center, 123 East Market Street, New Albany IN on Tuesday, May 28 at 7pm.The public is invited to the free concert.CD’s will be available for purchase.

After learning about western expansion the culminating event was a re-enactment of many activities that people of that era participated in such as roping cattle, washing clothes in an old washboard, square dancing, sketching wild life and writing with quill pens.

Summer break is almost here and what better way to celebrate than at the Clark County Youth Shelter’s annual Family Fun Festival. The Family Fun Festival will be held in conjunction with the Howard Steamboat Museum’s Chautauqua on Saturday, May 18, from 11am-3pm at the Howard Steamboat Museum/Port Fulton Park.

Swift Creek Railroad, a large and varied outdoor miniature railroad display, is preparing for their first open house of the year, the Memorial Day Run on Saturday, May 25. There have been some new features added to the display since they closed for the season in 2012.